"These are not my real hands!"

At some point the three of us got the brilliant idea of hiking Mount Timpanogos at 3 in the morning. It just so happen that the night before we were planning on embarking on this adventure, for reasons independent of one another, each of slept no more than 2 hours. Of course, being the people that we are, that did not deter us from continuing on our pursuit.

I'm positive the other two contributors of this blog are going to protest the posting of these pictures (hence the smiley face cover in the second one) but it was just too hysterical of an experience not to document.

Nikki's dad convinced Stuart to be our chaperon on this adventure and I doubt that Stuart will ever forgive him for it. From the moment we climbed into his car until 5 hours later when we climbed back in, we (the girls that is) could not stop laughing. To this day, I still can't figure out what was funny enough to keep us that entertained for that long. Whatever it was, I'm sure our extreme exhaustion was a huge contributor.


Our intention in starting the hike at 3 am was to reach the top by sunrise. As you may gather from the following picture, sunrise came and we were no where near our destination. In fact, in our 5 hours hiking, we never even came close to approaching our destination. Instead we followed behind this "experienced" Timp hiker and ended up winding our way around the mountain instead of up it.

On the bright side, it was a very scenic journey back to the parking lot.

On the down side, it was pretty exhausting after very little sleep. This was the beginning of a bunch of weird side effects Ashlee started experiencing on our journey home. For example: her hands swelled up to about twice their normal size and she proceeded to attempt hitch hiking with her giant thumb as she shouted "These are not my real hands!"We did not make it to the top of mount Timpanogos, that's for certain. We did, however, spend some of the most entertaining 5 hours of my life attempting the journey. And, as Miley Cyrus teaches us, "Ain't about how fast you get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, it's the climb!" By this standard, I'd rate our adventure a total success.

- Cooh